The Matadors

The Matadors were one of the finest and most celebrated beat combos to emerge from Eastern Europe in the 1960s; they were a sensation in their native Czechoslovakia, and toured frequently in Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, and other nations before eventually relocating to Munich. The first edition of the Matadors formed in early 1964, when bassist Otto Bezloja and sax player Jan Farmer Obermayer of the early Czech rock group Komety (aka the Comets) teamed up with Wilfried Jelinek, drummer with the Czech/German combo Pra-Be. Adopting the name Fontana, the group became a quintet ...